Month: October 2013

Track 15

I’ll be attempting to play basketball in an organized fashion this evening at 8:30pm.  Once a baller, it’s been many years (OK a decade +) since I’ve participated in anything more than a park pickup game.  Last three pointer I hit was over my daughter on a Tiny Tikes’ plastic hoop.  Feeling far too old for this but actually am too young.  The league is supposed to be for those over forty, I got an exemption.  I have mixed emotions about this exemption and our team name, “Matrix.”  That said, it will be good to see some friendlies, play a game and bang a bit.

It’s a slow break format, meaning you can’t advance the ball past half court until the other team crosses (unless it’s the last three minutes of a half at which time fast breaking is legal and encouraged so long as you keep your wind).  Think a bookclub where you read just the last chapter and only pay attention to half of what people say while eating appetizers that were given little thought.

If you haven’t already, start worrying about me. I’m a little nervous.  There’s rust here, I doubt my defense, and have a brain chalked full.   Don’t be too concerned though because just when you relax I’ll triple-threat up –>    jab step & deliver a skip pass to my mate low post.  I might just jump-stop to the block &  flip-shot a lupe-de-loosh off glass with seconds to spare. Matrix in your eye.

Track 13.5

OK, so it’s come to my attention by no one, that I’ve been negligent. Well, at least not yet today.

Point is, proper credit for a couple of the pictures should have been given on previous tracks.  I’ll do that from now on, and it’s alright because I’m in with these people.
Henceforth  (because that sounds so buttoned up)  consider each picture to be captured by me unless otherwise noted.  If I snag from pop culture or the internet proper, well I don’t know what to say.  Sorry  internet & culture.  If it seems a picture is of some artistic note and it’s not obvious, I’ll try and give credit there too.  It only seems right.  Agreed? .

Amends:
Track 1 photo by Derek White—>DWhite is one of the brightest men on earth and could have lived in any era, I swear.  + I’ve been to Egypt and the Olympics with him, so there.
Track 13 photo by Moonwater—>Moonwater is an amazing force, with a top shelf smile and mad storytelling skills.  She is a SuperMother, and yes is still a half-step ahead of me as a Scrabble player.  She is a wizard parallel parker,    take that.
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Track 12

Damn it(s),  got so/too much going on in my head at times—>  Concurrently–>
It’s vivid in there.   So imagine Jane’s Addiction and Mike Ditka co-hosting a soul food cooking show with a Mediterranean bent       +   some visuals.    Thoughts and memories can be shaken up like a snow-globe. Yesterday’s mistakes heckle today’s progress.   There’s a tidge of leftover jargon floating about.  And sounds, like every middle-school band all playing at the same time in the same gym while a trapeze act corresponds with the square root of G in the rafters.  You know what I mean?         Maybe no not.

It doesn’t matter too much, because at other times it’s crystal silent clear inside.  Like not yet formed mist.